This is an excellent study of a great naval and commercial commonwealth, occupying a small portion of Europe, but conquering a wide empire by the private enterprise of trading companies, girdling the world with its innumerable dependencies in Asia, America, Africa, Australia - exercising sovereignty in Brazil, Guinea, West Indies, New York, at the Cape of Good Hope, in Hindostan, Java, Sumatra, New Holland - must be looked upon with interest by Englishmen, as in a great measure the precursor in their own empire.    First published in 1856, John Lothrop Motley spent 10 years researching this book in which he presents the political and religious history of the Netherlands.     Motley was the only American author to be included in the Grolier Club's One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature.

After Empire: The Emerging Geopolitics of Central Asia

Snyder, Jed C.

National Defense University

Provides a historical perspective on a contemporary problem. Deals with the problems embodied in the tradition of service separatism in the American military establishment. Discusses the elements contributing to separate service identities and how these elements have affected interservice relationships. Addresses the technological choices made in modernizing the command and control systems used by the armed forces of the United States. L.C. card 96-44766.

Command, Control, and the Common Defense

History

Kenneth Allard

Military

McNair Paper No. 51.Addresses the future roles and interests of the four major Asia-Pacific powers, the United States, Japan, China, and Russia, and how their policies will affect security in Northest Asia, specifically, in the Korean Peninsula.

The Major Powers in Northeast Asian Security (McNair Papers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Cossa, Ralph A.

Politics & Government

Covers the transition from socialist to democratic political principles in Central Europe. Recounts the political history of four countries--Poland, Hungary, the Czeck Republic, and Slovakia--since  the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Seeks to explain why these nations are striving to meet the criteria for inclusion in a NATO enlargement program. L.C. card 96-39236. Item 0378-H-01.

NATO Enlargement and Central Europe: A Study in Civil-Military Relations

Business & Money

Simon, Jeffrey

Education & Reference

McNair Paper No. 59.Examines the relationship of intentions and capabilities in the information age, using China as a case in point. Hypothesizes that although power remains important in world politics, globalization has transformed its character, correlates, and consequences: Power now depends on freedom.

Right Makes Might: Freedom and Power in the Information Age (McNair Papers)

David C. Gompert

McNair Paper No. 62.   Produced by the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) 2001 Working Group. Assesses the nation's future security environment to the year 2025. Makes a unique contribution to the literature on asymmetric threats by providing a conceptual framework for thinking about threats.

Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats and the Next QDR (McNair Papers)

Kenneth F. McKenzie

Oil for the Lamps of China: Beijing's 21st Century Search for Energy (McNair Papers)

Cole, Bernard D.

Asia

This book looks at how a number of countries are meeting the challenge of employing existing military forces to carry out homeland security missions. The authors examine how Austria, Bulgaria, European Union, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States have approached the issue of the employment of military forces in domestic security. This collection of essays offers readers the opportunity to compare and contrast these experiences and the lessons they offer for future contingencies involving the employment of military force in support of civil authorities.

Armies in Homeland Security: American and European Perspectives

George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (Germany)

This publication describes the disturbing, yet highly important, new trend of transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) joining forces with terrorist groups and insurgents in order to create an adaptive, destructive, alternate ecosystem, in which extreme violence and criminal commerce rule. This trend is harmful to both the public interest and public good, as well as to the sovereignty of independent world powers. As this trend increases, the United Nations has issued a "high warning" (or worse) rating to at least one-third of U.N. state members. Criminal organizations and terrorist groups have access to quick communication, easy travel, military-grade protection and weapons, legal counsel, and other services that make them forces which can destabilize entire nations. Information about the convergence of TCOs and terrorists and insurgents is very limited due to their ability to remain off the radar of United States defense agencies. It is likely that illicit products used to fund these criminal and terrorist groups comprise two to five percent of global product. These criminal/terrorist networks divert global economic resources, as well as being able to use their power to diminish a state's ability to govern and protect itself. The worldwide nature of this epidemic, how it affects the United States and other world actors, and possible futures are explored in this publication. Related products: Convergence: Illicit Networks and National Security in the Age of Globalization Armed Groups: Studies in National Security, Counterterrorism, and Counterinsurgency Old and New Insurgency Forms Countering Radicalization and Recruitment to Al-Qaeda: Fighting the War of Deeds Antiquities Destruction and Illicit Sales as Sources of ISIS Funding and Propaganda

Beyond Convergence: A World without Order

The Armed Forces Officer

Albert C. Pierce

Richard M. Swain

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